Trump taps his most trusted officials to do as many as four jobs -- at the same time

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

68% : An emerging pattern is that Trump wants his most trusted officials in roles that are important to his interests.
62% : Trump has taken some Cabinet members and senior administration officials and layered on additional work that calls for wholly different sets of skills.
56% : The Justice Department upholds the nation's laws and advances Trump's agenda; the library is supposed to give lawmakers independent research they request.
51% : The following year, the Archives' inspector general sent a referral letter to the Justice Department noting that Trump had retained "highly classified records" after leaving office.
50% : "These jobs are difficult for people to do singly," said Max Stier, founding president of the Partnership for Public Service, a nonprofit group devoted to improving government performance.
48% : Greer was confirmed by the Senate as trade representative, but not as head of the special counsel or ethics offices.
45% : Trump recently named Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche the acting head of the Library of Congress.
45% : Another advantage for Trump in keeping a small circle of the same decision-makers is that it suppresses any challenges to his authority, former officials and good-government groups contend.
38% : He is also the acting administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development -- or what's left of it, anyway, after the Trump administration effectively dismantled it.
33% : "When he [Trump] returned to the White House in January 2025, he wasted little time in purging NARA's top leadership to make room for loyal officials more likely to do his bidding -- or even to turn a blind eye to future legal violations, including of the Presidential Records Act," American Oversight, a nonprofit watchdog group, said in a statement.
21% : Trump repeatedly denied any wrongdoing and U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon dismissed the case last year.
9% : [Trump] tells them to do." Upset as some lawmakers may be, there doesn't seem to be much they can do to stop Trump from concentrating key jobs in the hands of a few people.

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